Regarding big business, I kind of have the opposite reaction that it has been more community maintained and been the one of the reasons I kind of admired it as a software project. They also tried to make this choice clear by making the tools, documents as accessible as possible.
If you look at the history of Rust, the crates, cargo-team, etc, it is mostly community maintained.
An example of such community-oriented large project is Bevy.
It was only when libraries, rust itself was mature enough, the big tech companies started get involved (apart from Mozilla of course).
Whenever the project gets big and important enough, it will get attraction from large companies. The same is true for C++, as well.
Your comment persuaded me to have a little look at Rust. And I kinda like what I see. Every time I say to myself "I'll never use that tech", I end up using/learning it.
If you want to watch a talk from a person with good presentation skills on this point, I would recommend the following video: https://youtu.be/cWSh4ZxAr7E?t=3314
If you look at the history of Rust, the crates, cargo-team, etc, it is mostly community maintained.
An example of such community-oriented large project is Bevy.
It was only when libraries, rust itself was mature enough, the big tech companies started get involved (apart from Mozilla of course).
Whenever the project gets big and important enough, it will get attraction from large companies. The same is true for C++, as well.